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f i y — i __ _ Lincoln Fields Notebook Hasty House Has Five Horses Eligible To Au Revoir, Lincoln s Closing Stake • By J. J. MURPHY . LINCOLN FIELDS, Crete, HI., June 19.— We have before us a list of nominations for the Au Revoir Handicap, to be run Wednesday, which is closing day at this track. After scanning the line-up we have come to the conclusion that we will be very much f i - surprised surprised if if Hasty Hasty Hou: House Farm does not add another added monev - surprised surprised if if Hasty Hasty Hou: House race to their score in this. They have five thoroughbreds on the list of nominees, and about the only serious threat to at least three of the quintet would seem to be Money Broker, who, at the present writing, is in Detroit. It is usual for most race courses to have have an an affair affair named named have have an an affair affair named named the Au Revoir on the closing days of their meeting, but this year will mark the first time that Lincoln Fields Au Revoir has been a stake. The distance will be one mile out of the chute and the purse 0,000. With the close of racing Wednesday, action will shift to Arlington Park, which gets under way Thursday when the top piece will be the Primer Stakes for two-year-olds at five and one-half furlongs. Last season the Primer was taken by Company B. AAA Jockey Paul J. Bailey will make a trip to New York to ride Bobby Brocato in the Shevlin Stakes . . . Robert E. Wingfield, well known jockeys agent, and Nila Morrison, of Dallas, Texas, were joined in wedlock in New York Wednesday . . . Tommy Trotter, upon his arrival announced that he expected to become a father the latter part of next month. Mrs. Trotter remained in New York . . . Jockey Ronnie Baldwin got in from his home in Warren, Ohio, and will resume riding Wednesday, his suspension having terminated . . . The Emerald Hill stable is shipping Effie W., Alma B., arid Brad F. to ThistleDown Sunday . . . Elmer Kalensky, his suspension having ended at midnight Saturday, will resume training Sunday, taking over the horses that have been in the care of Eual Wyatt . . . The three-year-old Homestake, who as a juvenile last season won the George Woolf Memorial at Washington Park and is owned by L. L. Haggin n., got into Arlington Park from Delaware Park in charge of trainer Joe Kramer. The colt was accompanied by Sally Catbird, Smart Dearie, In the Blue, Bobsled, Brook Flower, Spicko, and a couple of others. AAA Letter from Pat OBrien, of New York racings publicity staff, telling me the disastrous tale of the disappearance of Abe Levs moustache . . . Names dont mean a thing. Chance Alarm, whose dam is named Not Asleep, was recently left at the post . . . The public relations staff here has turned in a good job of publicizing the races in the various downstate communities. Mayors of Kankakee, Ottawa, and Streator, all fair sized cities, have been in attendance during the meeting and have brought their friends . . . Admission prices at Arlington Park will be the same as last year, .20 grandstand and .75 clubhouse . . . Surprise of the meeting: Louis Meen passing up roast beef and ordering a peanut butter sandwich . . . Horse leaving the paddock the other day tossed jockey Irvin Guiney and the boy lit with a crash on the hood of, the patrol judges car . . . Just to get in practice for Arlington Park, we spent a half hour the other morning riding the escalators at Marshall Fields. Some fun. AAA Our clocker, Johnny Beech, who covers the early morning doings at Washington Park, reports that the majority of stables are waiting until Sunday to make their move to Arlington . . . Always have an anxious moment when we see trainer Ralph Bonn removing a horses blinkers, while smoking a big cigar. Afraid he might burn the animal on the shoulder . . . Lookalikes: Arlington Parks. Bob Henderson and Hawthornes Gene Carey ... Up to and including Friday trainer Ivan Parke sent five horses to the post for trainer Fred Hooper and saddled four winners. All were ridden by Don Scurlock . . . Nomination for the most insipid name for a stallion: Pink Flower, sire of Spring Green. No wonder the latter cant do much running . . . trainer Willard Proctor was due to arrive at Arlington Park Sunday with 19 head. They are coming from Delaware Park. AAA Dr. Paul J. Meginnis, track veterinarian here, is co-author of a paper having to do with clinical experiences with radiation therapy on race horses. A few are available to horsemen. It is a very enlightening treatise on the subject . . . W. E. Charles, who has been visiting here in the interests of Randall Park? left for Detroit Saturday ... . Mr. and Mrs. John A. Morris, honored guests here Friday, did not Continued on Page Forty-Eight JOCKEY P. A. WARD— Guided Gambetta in the Susan and Little Imp to victory in the Shakertown. Lincoln Fields Notebook By J. J. MURPHY Continued from Page Three seem to mind the heat . . . Those who have not visited Arlington Park since last season will be surprised at the view. A regular village has grown up in, the fields beyond the backstretch . . . W. E. Charles states that King Maple, generally regarded as the Canadian champion three-year-old, has been nominated for the Ohio Derby. The Buckeye Handicap at Randall was taken last year by the Canadian Risque Rouge . . . Edward Fayard, a 24-year-old rider of New Orleans, accepted his first mount, on a Chicago track when he rode Dear Doctor Saturday.
